Steven Mcgovern’s current work questions the validity of information and how its over saturation proves to limit our understanding.
Often using
materials that function as temporary forms of display and records of moments in
our lives the artist mirrors the sense of immediacy that contemporary media
demands.
Artists statement: “I try not to plan things out, as through
different methods of transference and translation it is the information lost
which interests me and drives the work. I have used pre-internet publications of scientific magazines as reference points of
how information had to be verified by experts before mass consumption but not
so today. Diagrammatic images seem bursting with information but are rendered
useless without key words or references. I develop this work through physical
and digital manipulation and interference of popular media, google images and
scientific theory and visualisations...”
“More
information does always not mean greater knowledge”.
More info: stevenmcgovern@live.com
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